Title: Assistant Professor

Email: jinglei at andrew.cmu.edu

Webpage: http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~jinglei

Research Interests:

Jing Lei's research interests include high-dimensional data analysis such as theory and methodology in sparse principal components analysis, functional data, and large-scale multiple hypotheses testing with application in genetics. He has also been working on state space models in high dimensional data assimilation, nonparametric and distribution free inferences, and data privacy.

Bio:

Jing obtained his B.S. in probability and statistics from School of Mathematical Sciences at Peking University (Beijing, China) in 2005, and his Ph.D. in statistics from UC Berkeley in 2010. After spending a year at Google as a statistician, he joined CMU statistics department in August 2011 as a visiting research scientist.